[HPADM] Dump failure error

From: Jeff Cleverley (jeffc_at_ftc.agilent.com)
Date: 08/19/03

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    Greetings,

    I have a K460 running hpux 11.00 that quit responding to anything but
    pings last night. I checked for drive error lights, front LED, etc and
    everything looked good externally. I decided to do a TOC and get a core
    dump. During the dump, it came back with an error that was something
    like:

    media write error - device 64:0x2

    Unfortunately everything started scrolling off the screen during the
    boot before I could get something to write with. I don't believe that
    it showed any actual path to a device such as 0x064000 or 8/8/4.1.

    The lvlnboot output is below.

    > lvlnboot -v
    Boot Definitions for Volume Group /dev/vg00:
    Physical Volumes belonging in Root Volume Group:
            /dev/dsk/c0t6d0 (10/0.6.0) -- Boot Disk
            /dev/dsk/c0t5d0 (10/0.5.0) -- Boot Disk
    Boot: lvol1 on: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0
                            /dev/dsk/c0t5d0
    Root: lvol3 on: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0
                            /dev/dsk/c0t5d0
    Swap: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0
                            /dev/dsk/c0t5d0
    Dump: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0, 0

    This leads me to believe that the c0t6d0 disk may have a problem even
    though it is currently up with no stale extents, no messages in syslog
    or dmesg about disk errors, etc.

    The root volume group is mirrored. Should I split the mirror and
    mediainit disk 6 and then put it back? Any information or suggestions
    would be appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Jeff Cleverley 

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